Word: approach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that as it may have been, there was much else for the Pope to talk over with Guglielmo Marconi. The Pope, besides having been a hardy mountaineer, is a radio enthusiast. As he awaited .the inventor's approach, as he fingered the gold medal he was about to bestow, the Pope may have reflected momentarily upon just a few of the week's news items, indicative of the vast sphere which this intense, blue-eyed, light-haired Italo-Hibernian set in motion as a youth only 30 years ago. The Pope may have realized...
Considering that the available oil supply within the boundaries of the United States will approach exhaustion at the present rate of consumption within 20 years, and further that the Royal Dutch Shell Company and one or two other groups British or Dutch controlled are at present in possession of four-fifths of the known or exploitable oil supply of the world, two further facts are of significance. The inventor of the process is a German, Dr. Berguis, and his achievement has been made possible by millions of dollars of German backing and two large experimental stations. Moreover an international company...
...doubt we have left him far behind, but it is not always as easy to be sure of it as is Mr. Gorman. There is still room for more than one kind of mind in poetry. It is reasonable to disgree with the way in which Longfellow chose to approach his art, but it might present him more fairly to admit that he may have been right, even though today he seems misguided, rather than to assert as dogmatically as Mr. Gorman seems to do one's conviction that he was far astray. In judging his character apart from...
...even if a few may not be strictly accurate. There is, too, throughout the book a almost constant use of the present tense alone--a trick of style fast becoming hackneyed in contemporary biography--which is no doubt meant to add liveliness to the narrative, but often seems to approach tedious affectation. There is even a "Time Spirit," who writes down now and then Mr. Gorman's views on his subjects present and future fame. Where these devices appeal, the biography will. Elsewhere it is likely to interest only those who come to it unfamiliar with Longfellow's rather uneventful...
...eternal verities of college life, must, to be at all effective, have purpose and direction or it is doomed to futility. The Federation hopes with a national scope, augmented by a keen interest in international college and university affairs, to make such purposiveness and such directness of approach possible. In their, attempt one can find nothing to condemn, unless he be pessimistic concerning the ability of youth to help in the solving of the problems of youth, and everything to praise. All educational reform must come from within, as has been suggested in this column recently, and the Student Federation...